Because of court orders and other stopgap measures, state workers were paid.
For another, several proposed stopgap allocations of state money remain to be firmed up in budget negotiations.
Under the Iowa Stopgap Measure, the state wanted to stop relying on the ACA's federal insurance exchange and, unlike anywhere else in the country, provide residents federal help in paying for coverage outside the marketplace.
"We'll get through this without having to issue IOUs," he said, referring to a stopgap measure the state used in 2009.
In addition, Democrats said, Mr. Brown would seek to make the case that after years of stopgap approaches to the state's mounting budget problems, this one would, barring any calamity, legitimately balance the budget and put the state on a road to normalcy.
By the nineteen-seventies, however, it was official government policy to dump chlorine in the canal as a sanitary stopgap, and today the state classifies the Gowanus water as SD — the lowest of five grade levels, meaning that fish might be expected to exist but not propagate.
He endorsed a stopgap budget to carry state government through 2016 and urged House Speaker Michael Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton to pass a stand-alone K-12 school funding bill so school districts statewide can be assured of opening on time in the fall.
In the two days that followed the session's collapse, Rauner hit the road on a tour of Illinois to gin up support for a "clean" school funding bill and a broader, stopgap plan to get state government through the calendar year.
Initially, as a stopgap, he also proposed state-funded coverage for the low-income elderly.
State lawmakers virtually ensured on Monday that they would break a record for the latest budget in New York's history, passing a stopgap spending measure that allows the state to continue functioning through mid-September without a permanent spending plan in place.
